Procreation is killing the planet, and traditional religion
is to blame, Global-Warming cultists insist.

First the industrial revolution had to go. Then it was to
the wall with oil company executives, those malignant Carbon Interests. Next, SUVs
were declared enemies of the planet.

Now, the left’s attention has shifted back to its perennial
targets – large families and “patriarchal” religion.

In a commentary in the April 21st. edition of USATODAY (“Might our religion be killing
us?”), Oliver “Buzz” Thomas quotes the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change -- a tool of the global village idiots at the United Nations -- to the
effect that Global Warming, caused by CO2 emissions, will lead to “drought,
starvation and species extinction.” (Fire and brimstone coming down from the
skies ... rivers and seas boiling… forty years of darkness… dogs and cats
living together!)

The culprits are religions that oppose birth control and
abortion and instruct us regarding fructification and multiplication. Thomas even
names names: “Now, consider the Roman Catholic Church’s continued opposition to
modern birth control or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ (i.e.
Mormons) encouragement of large families … . Many Orthodox Jews and some
Muslims also eschew birth control.”

Only
“some Muslims”? Bet Planned Parenthood isn’t doing a land –office business in Mecca.

These benighted faiths are literally drowning us in kids,
causing CO2-levels to rise, the hole in the ozone-layer to grow, and polar
bears to float away on break-away chunks of the rapidly shrinking Arctic ice
cap.

But, what can you expect from churches mired in a literal
reading of Scriptures? Thomas asks. “I recognize that religious organizations
tend to be conservative institutions. Their continued opposition to equal
rights for woman and gays is a good example.”

By failing to ordain women and opposing abortion and
homosexual marriage, conservative denominations prove their resistance to
progress and human rights, Buzz sneers.

Said
reactionary tendencies also are evident in their callous disregard for the
environment. (For the left, the quintessential spiritual experience would be an
abortion performed at a same-sex marriage ceremony, while transgendered ushers
throw condoms instead of confetti, and bridesmaids confiscate handguns from
passersby.)

Says Thomas: “In the interest of preserving our planet and
our species, shouldn’t religious organizations be encouraging smaller families?
Do our spiritual leaders need additional divine revelation to realize that our
current doctrines – which threaten to take the entire world down with us – have
become ethically and theologically questionable?”

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For 200 years, the left has been fixated on an imaginary overpopulation
crisis.In 1798, Thomas Malthus warned
that wars, famine and plagues were needed to reduce the “surplus population”
else we would soon inhabit Planet SRO.

In
his 1969 book, “The Population Bomb” (the prequel to “An Inconvenient Truth”),
Paul Ehrlich forecast worldwide famine by 1975. Natural resources would be severely depleted
and arable land exhausted in a futile effort to keep up with the population
explosion. Soon, we would be reduced to eating each other -- like Democratic
presidential candidates in late April of an election year.

That
none of these doomsday scenarios came to pass is irrelevant to the left.
Hysteria is the only way to propagate their creed. The Today Show’s Matt Lauer insists: “The stark reality is that there
are too many of us. And we consume too much … The solutions are not a secret:
control population, recycle, reduce consumption.” Spoken like a TV personality
feigning an idea.

How
many people are too many? They never tell us.As Dr. Jacqueline Kasunnoted in
“The War Against Population: The Economics and Ideology of World Population
Control” (1998), humans occupy 1% to 3% of the earth’s land surface.

A
decade ago, all 5.8 billion of us could have fit in the state of Texas, with each having
1,269 square feet of living-space – the equivalent of a ranch house.

Since
1900, the world’s population has quadrupled, while the planet’s GDP has
increased between 20 and 40 times.

In
1960, India
had to import food to deal with periodic famines. Today, with twice the
population it had then, India
is a net food exporter. Worldwide, half as many people die of starvation today
as in 1900, even though we have four times as many people. Those who starve to
death now are mostly victims of government-engineered famine.

A
1990 report of United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that
by employing what were then the most up-to-date technologies, the earth could
yield enough to feed 30 to 35 billion.

So,
we’re not running out of food or space. How about natural resources? In 1948,
the world’s oil reserves were estimated at around 600 billion barrels. By 2000,
the estimate was revised slightly upward – to 3 trillion barrels. The actual
figure is anyone’s guess.

Having
failed with the foregoing, the left now has hit on what it believes to be the
ultimate strategy to advance population control – Global Warming. Families are
about to feel the blade of the guillotine in the coming Green Terror.

In
May, 2007, an outfit called the Optimum Population Trust warned that if the
British didn’t voluntarily limit population size, it would be up to the state
to force them to be environmentally conscious in the bedroom. (FYI, in the U.K., the birth
rate is well-below replacement level.) The Trust warned that the average lifetime
“carbon footprint” of a child born in Britain
was the equivalent of 620 roundtrip flights between London
and New York.

Last
December, Barry Walters, an associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western
Australia, urged the government in Canberra to levy a $5,000 “baby tax” and an
annual $800 “carbon tax,” for each addition child born to a family with two
children. All of the left’s crusades begin with proselytizing and end in
coercion.

“Every
newborn baby in Australia
represents a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions for an average of 80
years, not simply by breathing but by the profligate consumption of resources
typical of our society,” Walters writes. The left is incapable of viewing
individuals as anything other than polluters, never as producers or innovators
– let alone seeing them in spiritual terms, as manifestations of God’s goodness.

Global
Warming is the left’s perfect storm – a force to demolish faith, family and
freedom. There’s no area of our lives that can’t be invaded – taxed,
controlled, regulated or obliterated – in the name of serving and protecting
the planet.

Unlike
food production and oil reserves, the myth of man-made Global Warming is
resistant to factual analysis. The left treats it as revealed truth and
skeptics are scorned as heretics and troglodytes – the scientific equivalent of
Holocaust-deniers. Al Gore, the movement’s P.T. Barnum-cum-Grand Inquisitor,
compares them to the cranks who believe the earth is flat.

If Global
Warming didn’t exist, the left would have to invent it. In fact, they did. As
Nigel Calder, former editor of the British magazine New Scientist explains: “Twenty years ago, climate research became
politicized in favor of one particular hypothesis, which redefined the study as
the effect of the study of greenhouse gasses. As a result, the rebellious
spirits essential for innovative and trustworthy science are greeted with
impediments to their research careers.”

Still,
the evidence is there for those not blinded by dogma. Al Gore’s brain is
melting faster than the Arctic ice cap, which is making a spectacular comeback.

A February 18, 2008 story in the London Daily Express notes that Arctic ice
levels, which had shrunk from 13 million to 4 million sq. km., between January
and October 2007, are now almost back to their original levels. In the meantime,
according to the paper, “Figures show that there is nearly a third more ice in Antarctica than is usual for the time of year.”

In New England, I spent
much of the past winter shoveling Global Warming.

The
entire Northern Hemisphere experienced the coldest winter in decades. Again,
from the Daily Express: “Even the
Middle East saw snow, with Jerusalem, Damascus, Amman and northern Saudi Arabia
reporting the heaviest falls in years and below zero temperatures. Meanwhile,
in Afghanistan,
snow and freezing weather killed 120 people.”

So many inconvenient facts that contradict the myth of
Global Warming. In the United
States, the 10 hottest years on record were
all in the 1920s and 1930s. (Those Model A Fords have wide carbon tire-tracks.)
Temperatures rose between 1910 and 1945, fell from 1945 to 1975, and rose again
for the next 20 years – which bears no relationship to the production of
greenhouse gasses.

In an open letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
(December 13, 2007), 100 eminent scientists from all over the world observed:
“It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has
affected humanity throughout the ages. … The United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the
climate influences of human produced carbon-dioxide (CO2), a non- polluting gas
that is essential to plant photosynthesis.”

Not only is there no reliable evidence that reducing CO2
emissions will affect climate change, the signers note, but “because attempts
to cut emissions will slow development, the current UN approach of CO2
reduction is likely to increase human suffering from future climate change
rather than to decrease it.”

Not that human suffering ever stopped the left. It wants
and needs man-made Global Warming as a way to counter what it considers the
most potent threats to its agenda -- faith and family.

The left must have its scapegoat. This is absolutely
essential. For Marx it was the bourgeoisie. For the ‘60s New Left, it was America – spelled
with a “k.” White males are the villains of multiculturalism. Now, it’s babies
and retrograde churches that are destroying the planet. The environment has
assumed the role of the proletariat, the Third World
and racial minorities in earlier models of damnation and salvation.

In particular, the left cringes at the thought of
Catholics, evangelicals, Orthodox Jews and Mormons having lots of children --
passing their misogynistic, homophobic, species-centric, suicidally archaic
worldview to the next generation.

The left has always worried about the reproductive patterns
of certain people. As Jonah Goldberg explains in his book “Liberal Fascism,” from
the beginning, racial eugenics was a project of the left -- or progressives, as
they called themselves then and now.

H.G. Wells, a hero of pre-World War II progressivism (a
socialist who wrote science fiction, much like Al Gore), said that in order for
humankind to move to the sunny uplands of utopia, “swarms of black and brown,
and dirty (lower class) white and
yellow people” would have to be discouraged from breeding – or physically
eliminated. Moreover, Goldberg explains, “The foremost institution combating
eugenics around the world was the Catholic Church.”

For those like Oliver “Buzz” Thomas (perpetrator of the
aforesaid USATODAY commentary),
hordes of rapidly multiplying Catholics, Mormons, evangelicals and Orthodox
Jews have taken the place of “swarms of black and brown, and dirty white and
yellow peoples.”

The irony here is that, unlike Global Warming, rapidly
declining birthrates is a reality, not a theory. Worldwide, in 1970, the
average woman had 6 children. Today, that average is only 2.8, with further
declines forecast.

If current trends continue, by 2050, the world will hold
248 million fewer children under 5 years of age than it does today. The crisis
we will confront in this century isn’t overpopulation, but a birth-dearth
leading to population decline. When it comes to maintaining civilization,
people are the one indispensable element.

By heeding His words and having large families, those
reactionary believers indicted by Green Jacobins are doing God’s work, as well
as humanity’s.

In his USATODAY diatribe,
Thomas writes: “Population growth hits hardest in poor nations, and, as poverty
increases, public health declines. I am quite certain that God is not the
author of human misery, but by preaching against birth control at the same time
we are preaching against abortion, it seems that we are making God out as
cruel, a buffoon or both.” Thomas believes the word of God is negotiable – and
must be constantly reinterpreted so as not make him “cruel, a buffoon or both.”

Buzz has it backward. Poor countries are often rich in
natural resources but lacking in human capital. By encouraging or forcing
emerging nations to limit their population, Global Warming hysterics are
dooming them to perpetual poverty.

God, on the other hand, tells us that children are the true
source of prosperity as well as happiness.

Ultimately,
it comes down to this: do we listen to God or a guy called Buzz? Hmmm, tough
decision.